your friend angers you, instead of getting angry think to yourself: “If I was, Heaven forbid, sick and the doctor prescribed a bitter-tasting medicine, I would swallow it because my life depended on it.” Patience is medicine for the soul. Although it’s difficult to put up with degradation, if you are patient and don’t respond in kind, your neshamah will shine brightly like the sun in all its strength. (Ma’aneh Rach)
